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The Town of Belgium’s Plan Commission’s scheduled meeting this week at which it was to discuss a controversial pay-to-hunt proposal has been delayed a week.

The commission was scheduled to meet Feb. 20 to discuss Dan Large’s request for a conditional use permit to allow a pay-to-hunt operation on a 65-acre parcel on the corner of Lake Church and Silver Beach roads.

The annual 5-kilometer and 10k walk and run organized by the local Snow Runners Ltd. snowmobile club of Port Washington will be held Saturday, April 13.

The Moonlight Meltdown kickoff will start at 6 p.m. with the race beginning at 8 p.m. at Kyote’s Bar and Grill in Belgium.

Last year, the race raised enough money to provide an automated external defibrillator to the Belgium Fire Department. Proceeds again go to the department and to maintain snowmobile trails in Ozaukee County.

Food, drinks, music, a silent auction and 50/50 raffle will be held after the race.

The Belgium Fire Department is hoping the way to volunteers’ hearts is through their stomachs.

The department is hosting a chili cookoff from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5. The event is free to the public. People will judge chili made by fire department and emergency medical service members.

The event is intended to raise awareness of the department’s new reserve program that allows people who don’t have time to go through firefighter training to help at fire scenes. The department’s volunteers are aging and it is in need of new members.

The Belgium Town Board on Monday directed its attorney to draft a moratorium on conditional use permits to last until the municipality updates its zoning ordinance.

Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 67 into law in November 2017 and it “has really changed the way that all municipalities in Wisconsin are looking at conditional uses,” Zoning Administrator Charlie Parks said.

“We need to abide by that, and it’s made it quite burdensome for municipalities now to allow for the conditional uses. A lot of that discretionary power has been taken away from the towns.”